Lighted-match protector.



No. 733 652. PATENTED SEPT. a, 1903. H. c. BOWMAN.

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PATENTED SEPT. 8; 1903.

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LIGHTED MATCH PROTECTOR;

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I PATENT Patented September 8, 190 s.

" FFICE.

HURLBUT o. BOWMANpOF DES MoINEs, IOWA.

.LlGHTED-MATCH PROTECTOR;

sPIIoIFIoATIoN' forming part of Letters, Patent No. 738,652, dated September s, 1903. Application filed October 11,1902. Serial No. 126,950. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HURLBUT O. BOWMAN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Des Moines, in the county of Polk and State of Iowa,have invented a certain new and useful Li ghted-Match Protector, of which the following is a specification.

The objects of my invention are to provide a device of simple, durable, and inexpensive construction for scratching the, head of a match and for preven ting the wind from blowing the match out when lighted, so as to enable a person to light a cigar or pipe readily.

My invention consists in certain details in the construction, arrangement, and combination of the various parts of the devicewhereby the objects contemplated are attained, as hereinafter more fully set forth, pointed out in my claims, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 isacross-sectional view of the device shown in Fig.2. This is made to. show the way in which the match-box is attached to the modified form of the device. Fig. 2 is a modified form of the complete device, shown in perspective. Fig. 3 is a cross-sectional view of the device, showing the opening for inserting the headof the match into the interior of the device and also showing the piece ofsandpaper or other material for strik ing the match upon. Fig. 4 is a perspective view of the device with a portion of one side broken away to show clearly the opening through which one end of the match is to be inserted and also shows the sandpaper upon which the match is to be scratched and illustrates fully the preferable form of the device. This view shows the rear end of the device i clearly, and Fig. 5 shows in perspective the complete device with a match in position for striking. v

Referring to the accompanying drawings, I have used the reference-numerals 1O andll toindicate the side portions of my device. These side portions are made, preferably, of a single piece of material and of fiat substance. This flat substance is doubled at its central portion and meets at its outer edges at the point 12. These edgesare then sewed firmly together, as shown in Figs. 4 and 5 of the drawings. When these outer edges 13 and 14 havebeen sewed together, I also close the interior of the side 11 and set into said i side is the sandpape ror other material 19,

the upper portion of said sandpaper or other material being preferably in the same line as the inner portion of the sides 11, so that if the portion of the device described is slipped over a portion similarly constructed in which the cigars are to be placed this rough material will not scratch the sides of the cigarretainer. may be either inserted into the side 11, or it may be attached in any desirable way to this side. Extending through the side 10, and preferably opposite the central portion of the rough substance 19, is an opening 20. This opening is so arranged that the head of a match and the lower portion of said match can be inserted through the opening in such a way that the head of the match will engage the rough substance 19. Then as the matchhead is scratched on the rough substance it will be lighted and that portion of the match on the interior of the device will readily burn. A modified form of my device is to provide an envelop having substantially the same parts as the device already described and numbered correspondingly and having the scratching material 19 on its interior and having the opening 20 extending through the side opposite from that to which the rough substance 19 is attached and also to provide a match-safe which is to be inserted between the sides 10 and 11 of this envelop and having a cover 21 hinged to the side 10. This cover is formed from a portion of the side 10. By the use of this form of my device it will be seen that the cigars can be stored on, the

interior of the envelop and the matches can be stored in the match-box 22, which is between the sides 10 and 11, and when it is desirable to light the cigar the person having the envelop can obtain a match from the box 22 after having removed his cigar from the case,

can insert this match through the opening 20, scratch it on the rough substance 19, and obtain a light for his cigar, as shown in Fig. 1.

In practical use the operator after having put his cigar or pipe in his mouth takes a match, inserts the head of it through the opening 20, places his fingers and thumb on the edges of the device, as shown in Fig. 1, presses these edges toward each other, thus causing the sides of the device to bespread apart. He then scratches the head of his match on the rough surface 19 until the match has been lighted. He then inserts his cigar into the open end of the device and lights his cigar from the fire consuming the match. As soon as the cigar has been lighted he withdraws that portion of the match which is on the interiorof the device through the opening 20, thus causing the fire on his match to be put out. He then releases his fingers and thumb from the device and it takes its normal position, as shown in Fig. 3. This device may be made of any desirable material; but the interior is preferably made of some inflammable substance, so that it will not readily become burned or scorched when the match is burning. I realize that this device may be made in various ways and of difierent substances, and I do not intend in the description of the device to limit myself to any particular form of construction of the device or to any particular material, and the sides of it may be made of some springing substance or substance which is not springing, as desired.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States therefor, is.-

1. In a device of the class described, the combination of a body portion, springing sides in said body portion having an opening between them at one end designed to admit material to be lighted, a closed end between said sides, one of said sides having an opening extending through it designed to admit a match, a roughened surface opposite said matchopening and on the interior of the side through which the match-opening does not extend, for the purposes stated.

2. In a device of the class described, the combination of springing side portions attached together at the extreme edges of the sides and at their rear ends, said sides being so arranged that by pressing upon the edges of the sides the sides will spring apart and form an opening between them, aroughened surface on the interior of one of said sides, the other of said sides having an opening extending through it, for the purposes stated.

HURLBUT O. BOWMAN.

Witnesses:

S. F. CHRIsTY, W. R. LANE. 

